Re: support for true-color terminals

[Charles Strahan <charles@cstrahan.com>]

Hello,

Unless I've missed it, I don't think I've received an email regarding
copyright assignment. Could you point me at the requisite paperwork,
please?

Thanks!
-Charles

On Fri, Mar 18, 2016, at 04:05 AM, Charles Strahan wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2016, at 04:26 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > From: Charles Strahan <charles@cstrahan.com>
> > > Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 20:48:54 -0500
> > > 
> > > A while back, there was an effort to add support for true-color
> > > terminals (by which I mean terminals supporting 16777216 simultaneous
> > > colors):
> > > 
> > > http://emacs.1067599.n5.nabble.com/RFC-Add-tty-True-Color-support-td299962.html
> > > 
> > > I've contacted Rüdiger, asking if he wouldn't mind if I pick up from
> > > where he left off, and he said that was fine as he's been too busy to
> > > work on this.
> > > 
> > > I've attached to this email the patch that I'm using, based on his work.
> > > Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
> > > 
> > > This is my first (attempted) contribution to Emacs, and I'm very new to
> > > the code base, so there might be some silly mistakes that I'm unaware
> > > of. If we can get this polished enough for inclusion, I'd be more than
> > > happy to assign copyright.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > First, I suggest that you start the legal paperwork rolling right now,
> > because without that, discussing such a non-trivial change would be
> > rather pointless.  If you agree, I will send you the form off-list.
> 
> Yes, I agree - thank you. I'll get the paperwork filled out as soon as I
> can.
> 
> > As for the patch: my first comment is about the changes in
> > tty_look_up_color and in map_tty_color -- why are these needed?  The
> > sheer number of the supported colors doesn't necessarily require any
> > changes in the basic design of TTY color support, so I'm not sure what
> > was the motivation for these changes.
> > 
> > Also, why do we need the 'true-color' option introduced in
> > tty-colors.el? why isn't 'auto' enough for supporting this terminal?
> 
> I'll try to answer your questions in the next day or two when my
> schedule frees up.
> 
> -Charles
>